israel steps up its bombing of gaza with the death toll now reaching forty five as a ground invasion is being prepared despite international a force to mediate peace. this comes as television maintains it's not targeting civilians and its bombing campaign is highly for signs. rebranded syrian opposition gets a royal welcome in france as the e.u. is expected to discuss whether to openly send weapons to the rebels. and to the u.k. government's budget handling is under fire after it's revealed dead billions of pounds spent on bank bailouts they all go down the drain.

it's chewy and here in moscow you're live with are two you with me to say kycia have you with us the gazan death toll from the escalating is wryly bombardment has risen to at least forty five of those killed us said to be civilians and as israel prepares a ground invasion the militants i had to back with the rocket attacks meanwhile the arab league has agreed at an emergency meeting to send a delegation to gaza and assess the situation on the ground archies policy has the latest now from tel aviv. what we are witnessing is a growing casualty counts and what we see is that many of the did and injured are in fact palestinian civilians not tell of it is struggling to explain this particularly in light of the fact that they argue that all they killings are targeted we have heard from the arab league secretary general and i've been the other big he says that tel aviv is committing war crimes that should not go

unpunished he adds to those that all arab nations should really assist any kind of peace treaties that they have with the jewish state we also heard from the egyptian foreign minister who pledged to keep the rougher border crossing between egypt and gaza opened we also with the seeing an increase of a flurry of activity from the international community we have heard for instance from the turkish prime minister that he has spoken with both the russian and the american leadership and he is putting forward a proposal that would seem to work in egypt the united states and russia call for and managed to broker some of taking his cease fires between both israel and gaza now also on saturday the to misinform minister was in gaza to show support for the hamas leadership we also see egypt playing in increasing need of a prequel but of course cairo has a very delicate balance to walk with on the one hand supporting and reflecting the

rule of the egyptian people which is see themselves as brothers of those that live in gaza while on the other hand not annoying its international backers such as washington it certainly seems as if a ground invasion is not far off we have witnessed a flurry of activity along the israel gaza border where we have seen israel firing increasing rounds of ammunition from tanks and armored personnel vehicles that have been positioned and moved along the border over the past few days we've also heard from israeli officials who have been eating with foreign diplomats and they say that they plan to extend their operations so this does seem to indicate that a ground offensive could be in the made. king we also know that all the roads around gaza have now been sealed and again this would be another indicator that there is some kind of program on the ground that would see an invasion they were earlier some seventy five thousand israeli reservists who were called up for duty so certainly the same as one gets and i get from talking to israelis on the ground that it's just

a matter of hours if not days before we will witness some kind of ground offensive in gaza it is worth noting though that according to the israeli count there have been some four hundred and fifty missiles that have landed in southern israel particularly southern israel since this whole operation began back on the wings day but only on saturday i was here in tel aviv when the missiles sounded and people ran for cover and it turned out that the iron dome bakri which had been deployed only earlier only a few hours earlier on saturday had managed to intercept a long range ukrainian in mosul so we are witnessing longer range missiles and managing to reach further into the jewish state and that is sending panic particularly in cities like tel aviv that will further inland the idea on the chiefs has also called for an increase in the pace of air strikes and this comes off to masturbate strikes on saturday morning so all the government buildings of the hamas leadership be completely destroyed and that is the same building where

just a day earlier the egyptian prime minister had made it and when he was in gaza at this building right now essentially is an island of rubble. had hoped to end something many of hope that they would be a cease fire in place now the israelis do deny the fact that they broke that cease fire but we have heard from her muscles on the ground that during that period of the so-called cease fire at least two palestinians were killed so there doesn't really seem to be any kind of real determination to actually bring this violence and this fighting to an end any time soon. earlier my colleague a bill dobbs spoke with the israeli defense ministry spokesman josh huntsman who gave no clear explanation why civilians are being killed in what he called highly precise bombings. but when hamas are hiding rockets beneath mosques and hiding rockets and missiles within school yards and firing rockets actually next to the very hotel where most of the foreign correspondents are staying we just have to look at all the reports coming out across the world today unfortunately it's

a very very difficult predicament and that's why the israeli government uses the most precise munitions is why the israeli army sends flies out to the population even before we conduct these precision strikes you want to minimize civilian what those precise munitions are doing to the people of gaza we want to speak to several governesses civilians who are suffering in this bombing campaign the moment here's what they had to say let's have a listen but then the civilian population here is. in every house there are about twenty people until quarter to six everyone was asleep after daniel asked to begin she can this entire area about sixteen killings were bombing innocent harmless people many were injured my family had four injured. and we were listening to the news to find out what's going on in gaza. yesterday we slipped through because we wanted to risk what we walk up and rubbed in their brothers you would think god all they were alive but what should we do now the roof collapsed walls are destroyed

the children of you under the rubble as they were doing and. we were all sleeping parents and me with my sisters and their sixteen missile hits our house we were taken to hospital thank god you're alive but that's how it was going on so what you say to these people in gaza. well first of all i'd like to point out that actually last night and every night but in particular last night even in the middle of the mission we had air force jets that were flying over and they had a precise target ready to be hit and the hamas organization or other organizations in the region board civilians to the location and we diverted the attack we are doing our utmost to protect civilians on both sides while hamas is going out of its way to not only put their own civilians in harm but attack our civilians on a day to day basis. filmmaker and activist harry fear who is in does or says that israel is using terror attacks six and its ground offensive against

palestinians. this is taking a death toll up to now forty five confirmed dead guards and in less than four days the true answer to why is because israel has its mission it has its objective it's got the people that it wants to kill but the thing is it doesn't care about collateral damage it has the same policy if you like as the united states with regard to collateral damage that it's happy to injure dozens of palestinian men women and children as long as it can kill one person who might have helped fire a rocket into israel the food a provision is regular. normal cycle we'll see if there's interruption of that at the next handouts as for health though the situation is very severe in this respect the resistance groups here feel that they have to do something to send a message to israel that it will pay some price if it continues to spill palestinian blood in this way from regional partners they're getting some support

i'm talking about the resistance efforts now the general gazan population though are getting regional support which is manifest and actually improved recent months and years we're seeing tunisia egypt turkey russia etc are providing rhetorical and diplomatic support for the guards and population here who is being besieged on bond . activists in syria say rebels have taken control of an airport in the country's east after days of heavy fighting against government forces this comes as france us says it will accept an ambassador from the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as the latest western tactic to remove president bashar al assad talks in paris focused on the protection of rebel controlled areas aided to refugees and the

need for a provincial governments to give your britain was also lobbies for the new coalition could fall of france and turkey in recognizing them on monday the ease expected to discuss official arms deliveries to the country's rebels militias have been fighting against the syrian army for nearly two years with about one hundred people being killed daily journalists a new client says libya market today is under way what we do is we get to go to the opposition puppets if you like not their heads together call them the government of libya or syria and then we work to end the arms embargoes and very soon we'll be hearing talk i expect no fly zones this is all part of a plan to topple a sad actually the western powers actually glary who it's ok for us to are the rebels in syria but for anybody else around the syrians it's not allowed so it's absolutely appalling their policy if we have the constitutional boat back in some

sort of serious voted for it we had elections in may you know there is a every possibility of a change in syria through the ballot box but the west don't want that because they know the president's job is to popular the ba'ath party probably majority support in syria the last one is the people who will in syria to prevail they want to impose by force a puppet government and you know what would happen and leave iraq too if assad is toppled we have lost in syria more chaos we have more deaths destruction but the west doesn't really care about that he doesn't care what's happening in libya at the moment all he cares about is a new government in damascus which will probably tie the entire economy the links with iran and hezbollah are now that you know the move against iraq to take place because it is all about paving the way to war against iraq. a top flight russian premier league team has been mobbed by violence players will want to leave the pitch up to fans head of goalkeeper with a flag. that says with the eurozone officially back in recession we report

on holland some of them that's off countries it's the l.t. who had taken the financial heads of this anymore just to hate. catalonia wants to get its independence from the rest of spain locals feel that madrid texas all of catalonia economic success is a way putting the region into debt trust me working hard only to have it all taxed away is very aggravating i can see why people are frustrated but the people who want independence have a very odd slogan kevin lonia a new european state so let me get this straight you want independence but you want to stay in the e.u. is that what you mean what exactly would that change that's not really gaining independence that shifting dependencies staying in the e.u. means you won't have control of your borders you'll still be on the euro so you

won't have your own currency you'll be able to establish your trade standards those will be dictated to you by brussels and if you don't like the austerity measures from outsiders like in madrid then you might want have a conversation with the greeks because being an independent country in the e.u. won't save you from people messing with your finances all i'm saying is that big truly independent means answer to no one not madrid not brussels but that's just my opinion. more news today violence has once again flared up the feeling these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are rooted a.

resistance is not of politics but a cultural. this could. on its own. cultures of resistance on martin. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm trying hard welcome to the big picture.

i. you're watching r t good to have you with us the u.k. government's handling of its bank bailouts has come under fierce criticism after it was claimed the six to six billion pound spend to rescue lloyds t.s.b. and the royal bank of scotland may never be recovered the report from m.p.'s as says the british taxpayers have already lost two billion keeping another financial

institution afloat surf earth reports. this is all focused around the public accounts committee investigation into the sale of northern rock that was the bank that if you cast your mind a couple of years back was one of the first to get the big banking bailout is estimated that for northern rock the type state is set to lease around two hundred billion but that's not the worst of it because all of the s. and lloyds bank oh also had a lot of taxpayers' money funded into those bailouts and the taxpayers could be set to lease a staggering sixty six billion pounds on that is very very hard to wrap your head around those figures so we're going to try and compare it really the amount that was put into those bailouts to what we have in the moment spending on social welfare such as pensions education health care and defense these figures coming at a time when everyone here is struggling in

a daily we're talking to people who are really struggling to survive in the country in the midst of this very very tough economic times and you kind of got this it was a good report very hard hitting report telling us that there was a monumental collective failure that the treasury was unable to pull the respond because they lack the right skills and understanding so it really sucks a little bit of both the billion sorry guys we've lost that that the sixty six billion you know we weren't quite on the job one of the great the warning at the very beginning with the tax payers line and doing now by the campaign manager robert oxley thank you for joining us today these types of stories always make me so angry because you know every day we're covering stories with people you know struggling with a living wage in the a chance the pensions the you know tax is a rising all the time and then you have this report showing that you know sixty six billion could be lost i mean it's just chiefly responsible with taxpayers' money

well this report is a. politician despite their woolly words. that we were going to make money out of the banks and that propping up the banks would be you know it would be ok and there was a chorus of people from both sides the political divide saying you know we need to bail out about me what's happened is we've lost billions of pounds and we've basically allowed politicians to gamble other people's money and lo and behold those politicians have got very good results as is always the case when politicians are spending other people's money it's incredible how often those in power manage to get every major crisis wrong and i think we're seeing that of the moment in a rejection of the way that our politics at westminster is out of touch the point here is it was the writing was on the wall whether any lessons well actually of course remains to be seen but taxpayers they think they absolutely whopping losses at the moment at least a lot of people saying you know we saved the banks he's going to save us. head online to find out how the pride of the u.k.'s nuclear submarine feel has disappointed i command we reveal some of the vessel surprising flaws including

flooding problems. plus the giant helping out of the boss events in the midst of russia's nine hundred seventeen revolution and about the shocking eye opener from an australian history exam on r.t.e. dot com. despite the looming economic trouble in the euro zone one of its biggest economies of france has always been praised as the promised land for the retired however with the single currency zone hit with a second recession things are changing fast as alexey oshinsky reports. when you look at the elderly people in france you'd never think they could be in trouble there has been a common belief that france is one of the best countries in the world for pensioners and that they are very well cared for by the state but with the financial crisis raging across the european union and france being no exception to that more and more of the retired are finding it harder to make ends meet here

worked as an engineer for over four decades having retired he says he sometimes cannot afford to buy food with you spend. six. months of it to live there is. sick so you are you for a lot of trouble because. most people say you have to or. you have to order to sixty years old how can you survive in circumstances like gears is unclear but hundreds of thousands of pensioners across the country are in the same boat say the chairman of a large charity which is trying to help. a number of seniors turning has increased considerably in all regions it used to be only in the north but now all regions are a fair go. young people and children used to help but now with the crisis hitting the young seniors upon themselves isolated. but no these struggling people are in

for another blow starting next year the pensions of over ten million french will be taxed says the minister for the elderly this will amount to zero point five fifteen percent of monthly payments and the new government believes this will generate three hundred fifty million euros annually for the social security fund but economists believe it's pointless with the government trying to do now is reach by all means the three percent deficit threshold that was promised to. you know trying to find like every single penny. obviously don't have a say to the pensioners and to their spending power is really bad for consumption in france it will not be a perfect solution for. greeting french growth and agrees because in his case every cent counts it may be less than one percent a few spend deducted each month but it still threatens to take food from his mouth

alexy rush of ski reporting from paris and france. the russian premier league football clash between dynamo moscow and reigning champions the need. was abandoned after dynamos goalkeeper was hit by a flag thrown from the stands his r.t. sean thomas with the details and to ensure a man who is the goalkeeper for do no moscow has been injured doctors have looked at him and they say that he has been blinded by this incident and tries to see one i took you back through this matches between st petersburg and moscow demoed took place here to area which is in the moscow region friends from st petersburg started putting the pitch with fireworks and flares one of those where is our fireworks went off in the face of the goalkeeper he went down on the pitch. in pain and then after he was down on the grass and they had stopped the game it is reported that

the fans continued to pelt objects at the goalkeeper at that time so the decision was made by the officials and the referees who stopped that game it's unclear whether or not that game will be continued at a later date or if it will be given a technical defeat if you will now tensions between st petersburg fans and moscow fans have gone on since around two thousand and eight they've been at a high level at that time there was a banner that was placed at a game in st petersburg that was questionable got fans upset and more recently in september between a game between a torpedo and there was a similar incident with fireworks being thrown onto the field but much more said that time and in the same month fans then attacked their own headquarters saying that if the team doesn't play better they will start destroying property as well so there's a big problem basically between a football fans and the teams they supposedly support but their actions at this point in time are being more disruptive to the game than being helpful. as of now

there are no laws in russia that are designed to protect football teams or to punish fans right now that is being talked about as a possibility in the near future coming up we take a look at how odd to can serve as ammunition in the battle for peace and justice it's after the break. the ride that takes your breath away to eating across the sky is over the monish who do know the biggest salt lake in europe and more than two hundred species of birds. are on the verge of extinction on these islands in the south of russia they find shelter before migrating to other parts of the world paladins as well as other

species of the monish who do low feed. these words are waiting for their parents to bring them food to the best cash for them is in a small areas a lake where the water is relatively fresh as fish cannot survive in the salt of the month and the lakes getting salt every year. to fish oil reservoir which was filled in the nine hundred fifty s. in the area's hot climate that evaporates quickly and. takes over. the drying out of. the world's biggest population. hundred of the animals here to protect. it's a place of peace and calm in recent decades dozens of canals of. taps broad grassy plains this may be useful for humans but it does badly hit many

species of the animals here. so i guess antelopes just some forty years ago there were more than two million. but now people brought the species to the brink of extinction this region has been. thousands of years but now in a relatively short space of time it's my brain dead. versity of creatures is sweat and old farts by men and nature itself. the world of the. slaves technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've gone to the future are covered.

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